 Why will they not let me remain in obscurity and inaction ? Are they apprehensive, that, if an atom of me remains, the sect has something to fear ? Must I be annihilated, lest, like old John Zisca's, my skin might be made into a drum, to animate Europe...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Sivu 113tekijä(t) Edmund Burke - 1855Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 660 sivua
...above it : no melancholy can depress me so low, as to make me wholly insensible to such an honour. Why will they not let me remain in obscurity and inaction...to fear? Must I be annihilated, lest, like old John Zizcas, my skin might be made into a drum, to animate Europe to eternal battle, against a tyranny that... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 sivua
...endeavours. I have laboured hard to earn, what the noble lords are generous enough to repay. * » * * * Why will they not let me remain in obscurity and inaction...tyranny that threatens to overwhelm all Europe and the human race ? " The Revolution of France seems to have extended even to the constitution of the... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 sivua
...endeavours. I have laboured hard to earn, what the noble lords are generous enough to repay. * * » * * "Why will they not let me remain in obscurity and...tyranny that threatens to overwhelm all Europe and the human race ? " The Revolution of France seems to have extended even to the constitution of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 638 sivua
...wholly insensible to such an honour. Why will they not let me remain in ohscurity and inaction ? Arc they apprehensive, that if an atom of me remains, the sect has something to fear ? Must I he annihilated, lest, like old John Zisca's, my skin should he made into a drum, to animate Europe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1861 - 568 sivua
...above it : no melancholy can depress me so low, as to make me wholly insensible to such an honour. Why will they not let me remain in obscurity and inaction ? Are they apprehensive, that if an atom of me it-mains, the sect has something to fear ? Must I be annihilated, lest, like old John Ztsca's, my skin... | |
 | James Locke Batchelder - 1866 - 64 sivua
...of the French Revolution, he inquires: "Muft I be annihilated, lest, like old JOHN ZISCAS, my {kin might be made into a drum to animate Europe to eternal battle, againft a tyranny that threatens to overwhelm all Europe and all the human race?" Depicting the refults... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 sivua
...me above it ; no melancholy can depress me so low as to make me wholly insensible to such an honor. Why will they not let me remain in obscurity and inaction...drum, to animate Europe to eternal battle against n tyranny that threatens to overwhelm all Europe and all the human In one thing I can excuse the Duke... | |
 | Geo. F. Holmes, George Frederick Holmes - 1871 - 264 sivua
...of the sentence in which a direct question is asked. " Why will they not let me remain in ohscurity and inaction? Are they apprehensive that, if an atom of me remains, the sect has something to fear ? " OBs. 1. —When several questions are comhined In one compound sentence, the mark of interrogation... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 sivua
...me above it; no melancholy can depress me so low as to make me wholly insensible to such an honor. Why will they not let me remain in obscurity and inaction...threatens to overwhelm all Europe and all the human race ? In one thing I can excuse the Duke of Bedford for his attack upon me ;md my mortuary pension : He... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 sivua
...said to me, " I have to read Burke's Letter to a KMc Lord once a-quarter; I get sick, if I don't." 'Why will they not let me remain in obscurity and...to fear? Must I be annihilated, lest, like old John Zisca's,6 my skin might be made into a drum, to animate Europe to eternal battle against a tyranny... | |
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